Caen

American

[kahn, kahn] / kɑn, kɑ̃ /

noun

a city and the capital of Calvados, in NW France, SW of Le Havre: many Norman buildings destroyed 1944.

Caen British

/ kɑ̃, kɒŋ /

noun

an industrial city in NW France. Pop: 113 987 (1999)

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Distillation has been around in some shape or form for a long time, according to Christopher Caen, CEO of Mill Pond Research.

From MarketWatch

“It’s another version of scraping, which has been a problem since day one,” Caen said, referencing how Anthropic’s Claude and other LLMs have been trained on large amounts of copyrighted material from across the internet.

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“Absolutely nothing,” according to Mill Pond Research’s Caen.

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“Distillation is sort of like fighting over who gets to fill the tank with whose gas — but the real battle is over who gets to be the engine,” Caen said.

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Former Arsenal and Manchester City star Gael Clichy was appointed coach at French third division side Caen on Monday.

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